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Odaka Pioneer Village . MINAMISŌMA

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A small complex of coworking spaces, guesthouses, and makers’ spaces in Odaka Ward, Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture, which is located in the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, close to the site of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and where residents were ordered to evacuate until July 2016. It functions as “factory of action” that creates new businesses in the disaster area by becoming a people magnet and reassembling the social.
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Facility for Ecology Education . Saitama

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Ryuji Fujimura Architects . photos: © Takumi Ota

This is a facility for ecology education built within a mega-solar power plant located at an old factory site on the corner of a residential neighborhood of suburban Tokyo.
During the design process, motifs such as “Station”, “Church” and “Alley” were generated at public meetings, and were integrated at the end. Continue reading Ryuji Fujimura

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Subaru Nursery . Fukuoka

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Ryuji Fujimura . photos: © Takumi Ota

Subaru Nursery School is a nursery school relocated from a different location and built on a site in the suburb of Fukuoka. The client requested us to design a durable building where children are securely protected after experiencing the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes which occurred right before this project started. The nursery school also emphasizes physical education and requested us to divide the building in two nursery rooms to accommodate two age groups, namely a group of younger children (0, 1, and 2 years old) and a group of older children (3, 4 and 5 years old), to facilitate children’s physical activities according to the level of their physical growth. Continue reading Ryuji Fujimura